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I have an old, small brass, pump up fire extinguisher hanging on the wall....it was going to be my overflow, but after seeing a couple of the old WWII canteens....I need one of 'em instead....the brass extinguisher would stick out like a sore thumb.....

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I have an old, small brass, pump up fire extinguisher hanging on the wall....it was going to be my overflow, but after seeing a couple of the old WWII canteens....I need one of 'em instead....the brass extinguisher would stick out like a sore thumb.....

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On the 39 GMC

I got a brass extinguisher on my firewall that's a puke can..... few see it!

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I bought this WW1 US Army Canteen when I was about 12 and it's been kicking around in the attic for 55 years.
I just installed it as a radiator overflow tank on my Hemi powered 32 Roadster that I got on the road in July.

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I got a "Flathead cola" glass bottle off of Ebay back when a search covered everything on Ebay. I learned a lot about the flathead Indian tribe and the Flathead mountains in Montana. I got a Flathead Ale tap for my shifter too.

I know glass wouldn't pass tech but if they made a Rocket cola bottle wouldn't you want it on your Olds powered hot rod?

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I've got an antique embalming fluid bottle I dug up from an old cistern in the back yard. No picture of it , but I think it would be pretty cool. It's a plain square bottle with the words "embalming fluid" embossed on it.

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The same WWII-Korea era canteens were used by the Boy Scouts of America as Official BSA gear when they came on the surplus market. The BSA ones often are in the original U.S. marked pouches with an additional BSA ink stamp on the pouch.
Earlier BSA canteens were the saucer shaped ones with aluminum or bakelite screw in plugs.
So, if you feel bad about using a GI's canteen, how about a Boy Scout's? "Be Prepared"

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Those basic canteens were "Model 1910", and I think were still called that into the sixties when plastic ones came along...
They had aluminum caps til about '43, then bakelite after that, so two styles to play with...
The military actually stocked spare parts for these--caps and corks, chains...
and somewhere around here I have one of the flat BSA canteens made with an Army bakelit cap; presumably the supplier bougt up the surplus spares after WWII. Somehow, I imagine there's a warehouse somewhere containg 25 tons of spare cork gaskets stockpiled by deranged military planners.
If you want weird variants, there were a number of alternate material ones made early in the war...
Racers often mounted them polished and upside down, welding a nipple into the new topside, allowing the thing to be drained easily.

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A more modern version of Mr. Green's, but it still sparked a lot of questions. On my 52 sedan, I used a leftover oil reservoir from the A.P.U. (small turbine engine that powers the generator & A/C when the plane is at the gate) on a Boeing 737. It was stainless, so I did a quickie polish job on it and mounted it with big hose clamps.